80% of household water goes to waste – we need to get it back
Oct 26, 2019 08:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Roberta Ryan, Professor, UTS Institute for Public Policy and Governance and UTS Centre for Local Government, University of Technology Sydney As regional Australian towns face the prospect of running out of water, its...
Deregulation and standards after Brexit – what Naomi Klein's 'disaster capitalism' can tell us
Oct 20, 2019 10:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
One of the most frustrating features of Brexit over the past three years is the widespread belief among Brexiteers that outside of the EU, Britain will have more control over its destiny as a nation. Its certainly a...
The public needs to know why health data are used without consent
Oct 09, 2019 14:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
With all the negative media coverage and public concern related to data, it isnt surprising that governments are responding with laws and policy statements that emphasize the need for consent from the data subject. Peoples...
The Supreme Court and refugees at the southern border: 5 questions answered
Oct 09, 2019 13:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
I sat in a small room in Tijuana, Mexico with a 13-year-old indigenous Mayan Guatemalan girl. She left Guatemala after a cartel murdered her friend and threatened to rape her. Her mother wanted her to live and believed...
B Corp certification won't guarantee companies really care for people, planet and profit
Oct 09, 2019 13:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Weeks after the collapse of his restaurant group and the loss of 1,000 jobs, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver announced that he was creating an ethical B Corporation or B Corp, a sort of company certification designed to show...
Harvard can use race as an admissions factor, at least for now
Oct 04, 2019 14:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business Law
Editors note: A federal judge has upheld Harvard Universitys use of race in college admissions, rejecting claims that the school discriminated against Asian Americans to admit more black and Hispanic students. Vinay...
Meghan Markle letter: what the law says about the press, privacy and the public’s right to know
Oct 04, 2019 14:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have announced plans to sue the Mail on Sunday and its parent company Associated Newspapers, after they published a private letter from Meghan to her father earlier this year. In a press...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects